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12/01/2012 02:01:30 AM · #1
Strive for a weekly or biweekly visual narrative using the film format of your choice. The subjecs and themes are unrestricted. Try not to over think the concept of a visual narrative, and keep in mind that it is a guideline for the side challenge not a requirement.

Let's start with December and see what happens.

Good ol' film thread

From daisydavid
Burn magazine has some inspiration

Useful references and links:
americansuburbx.com/
//cpj.org/
//en.rsf.org/
//inmotion.magnumphotos.com/
//lens.blogs.nytimes.com/
//lightbox.time.com/
//photojournalismlinks.com/
//daviddareparker.wordpress.com/

The wild and crazy few.

ambaker
bvy
daisydavid
paynekj
salmiakki
tnun

12/05/2012 07:29:45 AM · #2
All I got is pictures. Once-upon-a-time comes harder.

You first.
12/05/2012 01:02:27 PM · #3
I have a set of Polaroid images from this weekend to post. Scanned. Just need to get the dust broom out and upload. They are pictures, and readily skirt the guideline. ;)
12/05/2012 04:31:00 PM · #4
Similarly, narrative escapes me, but I do have a theme:



Kevin

Message edited by author 2012-12-05 16:31:15.
12/05/2012 05:46:07 PM · #5
Very nice, Kevin. Tell us about your camera and film.
12/05/2012 07:58:46 PM · #6
The camera I'm using is the Vito Automatic R. The camera is fitted with an automatic
exposure calculator that selects the appropriate aperture for whatever shutter speed
is set. 1960's mirror less, almost point and shoot. It has to be used as a manual
camera now and the shutter speed is stuck around 1/60 sec.
Rita had the camera squirreled away in a closet for about 30 years. I know next to
nothing about these things. I'm a digital guy, the digital age taught me the little
I know about cameras.

I fiddled and twisted every knob. I opened what I could. I got my glasses that
magnify out and inspected. It looked heavy and it felt like a ton. Solid steel.
I went to CVS and bought the CVS brand 35mm film. About $12.00 a pack of 4 ISO400
rolls. I raced home and proceeded to load my first roll. I sat at a table and opened
the camera up, then the film. I sat back thinking, this just got real. Here I was
about to load real film in a 35mm point and shoot! My hands started shacking and
sweat beaded on my forehead. The camera clicked shut, a satisfying sound.
Of course I had put the film in wrong and had to open it up and save something. The
film wasn't advancing. I figured I would do better next time.


12/06/2012 12:58:24 AM · #7
We took my wife for a brief vacation in San Diego this past weekend for her birthday. Polaroid One Step 600 using Impossible Project Cool PX and Cool Silver Shade instant film. This is their most reliable film thus far, 8 of 16 frames were usable.

Mission Bay



12/06/2012 08:33:10 AM · #8
The camera for this set was a Bilora Bella 66-IIa

which I bought for all the change I had in my pocket (£4.95) at a car-boot sale earlier this year. At the time I wasn't sure if the shutter was working (I try to only buy cameras that appear to be usable) and it took me some time to figure out that you had to extend the lens and lock it to connect the shutter button to the shutter.

It takes 12 exposures on 120 roll film and there's not much control over exposure - no aperture control and 100th 50th and B shutter speeds. You can however adjust the focus.

The film used here is ADOX CHS100, developed in APH-09 for 14 minutes at 20C(ish) which has made for some very thin looking negatives.

As I don't have a negative scanner, these have been photographed with my DSLR and the RAWs put through Photivo and GIMP.

Kevin

Message edited by author 2012-12-06 08:34:45.
12/06/2012 09:21:49 AM · #9
wow, you must be masochistic ;p
12/06/2012 02:09:10 PM · #10
Kevin I like the tone and feel of the old wood.

I can see half the fun is playing with these old instruments. There is a visual thrill when I look at what I took as a picture. The only drawback is the price. I've taken about 1000 pictures with my H70. If I bought enough film, four packs for 10 bucks, it would cost around $2500.00. The H70 cost $150.00. I have to admit 95% of my shots are throwaways.

Nevertheless, It sure is fun experimenting.

Ben, love that 'old color' in your series. The mistiness adds to the emotional impact.
12/06/2012 10:30:01 PM · #11
You can roll your own to cut down the cost. Or develop. Obviously I like digital, but I enjoy the BW film experience. I bought a brick of Agfa 100 for $45. Still fresh. That's 360 frames/10 rolls. D76 or Rodinal one shot is less than $0.50 per roll, not counting the cost of your time. So $50-60 will cover about 360 frames of 35mm film. Of course, that won't fill a 16GB card which was long since paid for. TX400/HP5 costs me $4-6 per roll developed at home. TMax/Delta films are about $1-3/roll more. Medium format is a similar cost per roll, but with far less frames! I wish I could shoot film like digital, but it is too costly when put up against a minimum of 1500 frames/month I shoot digitally.

Bulk film can work out to $2-4/roll developed if you are willing to spend the time. Cheaper if you get lucky on e-bay.

12/09/2012 11:30:55 AM · #12
Originally posted by bspurgeon:

We took my wife for a brief vacation in San Diego this past weekend for her birthday. Polaroid One Step 600 using Impossible Project Cool PX and Cool Silver Shade instant film. This is their most reliable film thus far, 8 of 16 frames were usable.

Mission Bay

Did you see this, Ben? I think you should enter.
//www.flickr.com/groups/polapremium/discuss/72157632112880405/

(And I swear I saw this after I suggested that same title for our thread!)
12/09/2012 02:24:36 PM · #13
This is my CVS journey. Even the machine that reads the images is having a hard time with mine.

12/09/2012 02:26:51 PM · #14
This week I've continued on my Tree theme. The week it's been with a Konica C35V:

Loaded with a roll of anonymous ISO200 that I started September last year. It was only when I took the film out that I found out it was ISO200. The camera meanwhile was set to ISO100 and as I was using it on auto mode... oops. SnappySnaps developed and printed it in an hour for the princely sum of £9.

Anyway it didn't turn out too bad:




And on a side note, it was such a pleasure to use a camera with a lever film advance again.

Kevin
12/10/2012 11:56:19 PM · #15
I thought I might show what I get back from the developer, CVS. This is their film. I just bought some Fujifilm. It was cheaper at $8.00 for ISO400, 4 rolls. Try that next. I think I see better noise than I can get with digital. I like the grain structure. A nice old fashioned feel. You can see the full file with enlargement.

12/11/2012 03:03:13 AM · #16
Originally posted by bvy:

Originally posted by bspurgeon:

We took my wife for a brief vacation in San Diego this past weekend for her birthday. Polaroid One Step 600 using Impossible Project Cool PX and Cool Silver Shade instant film. This is their most reliable film thus far, 8 of 16 frames were usable.

Mission Bay

Did you see this, Ben? I think you should enter.
//www.flickr.com/groups/polapremium/discuss/72157632112880405/

(And I swear I saw this after I suggested that same title for our thread!)


Thanks for the link Brian!

I have couple of rolls drying. Hopefully I'll get them scanned tomorrow night.

12/11/2012 04:41:11 AM · #17
from nature to utility to the discarded, a happy theme
12/11/2012 11:21:52 PM · #18
12/12/2012 04:35:59 PM · #19
Speaking of photoessays...

Image of mine is currently being featured on LPV Magazine -- part of the current front page feature titled "Here is the Root." It's the image credited to "Brian Y" (that's me). Funny, it fared poorly as part of a Free Study this year.

I'll get some film shots up soon...
12/12/2012 07:05:58 PM · #20
Originally posted by bvy:

Speaking of photoessays...

Image of mine is currently being featured on LPV Magazine -- part of the current front page feature titled "Here is the Root." It's the image credited to "Brian Y" (that's me). Funny, it fared poorly as part of a Free Study this year.

I'll get some film shots up soon...


Great photo - congrats on the recognition!
12/12/2012 08:51:43 PM · #21
Entertainment that's me until xmas I thinks. Congrats Brian Y on the publication, grand work.
12/13/2012 12:09:04 AM · #22
Hey Brian beautiful photograph, congrats.

Theme tonight is a walk around the herring run. There is an old factory a pond and a path through woods that go back about a mile. No one was around. A slight drizzle. Before I was through I had to hide the camera under my coat and I got wet.

12/13/2012 01:04:13 AM · #23
Just realized I have one of these might grab a roll of Agfa E6 100 and blast away, if I remember it has a light leak - now I'm excited. sad isn't it.
12/13/2012 02:31:39 PM · #24
John I understand. Experimenting is fun. At this point my biggest problem is getting the camera to wind each frame correctly. I'm beginning to remember we had a lot of time on our hands back in those days.
12/14/2012 11:14:52 PM · #25
Originally posted by PennyStreet:

Originally posted by bvy:

Speaking of photoessays...


Great photo - congrats on the recognition!


Ditto. Missed the post.
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